The Twelve Days of Christmas (song) (English Wikipedia)

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For the medieval text, see Brown, Carleton (1932). English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 39–41. or Greg, W. W. (1913). "A Ballad of Twelfth Day". Modern Language Review. 8 (1). Modern Humanities Research Association: 64–67. doi:10.2307/3712650. JSTOR 3712650.
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Cauthen, I. B. (1949). "The Twelfth Day of December: Twelfth Night II.iii.91". Studies in Bibliography. ii. Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia: 182–185.
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Sharp, Gilchrist & Broadwood (1916), p. 280. Sharp, Cecil J.; Gilchrist, A. G.; Broadwood, Lucy E. (November 1916). "Forfeit Songs; Cumulative Songs; Songs of Marvels and of Magical Animals". Journal of the Folk-Song Society. 5 (20): 277–296.
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Registered for US copyright in August 1909; see "Twelve (The) Days of Christmas". Catalogue of Copyright Entries Part 3: Musical Compositions. New series. 4 (44–47). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office: 982. November 1909.
"Reviews". Musical Times. 50 (801): 722. 1 November 1909.
Rutter, John (1967). Eight Christmas Carols: Set 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 15. OCLC 810573578. Melody for "Five gold rings" added by Frederic Austin, and reproduced by permission of Novello & Co. Ltd.
Keyte, Hugh; Parrott, Andrew (1992). New Oxford Book of Carols. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. xxxiii. ISBN 0-19-353323-5. Melody for 'Five gold rings' (added by Frederick [sic] Austin)
Barry (1905), p. 58. See also p. 50.
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Yoffie (1949), p. 400. Yoffie, Leah Rachel Clara (October–December 1949). "Songs of the 'Twelve Numbers' and the Hebrew Chant of 'Echod mi Yodea'". The Journal of American Folklore. 62 (246): 399–401. doi:10.2307/536580. JSTOR 536580.
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Knuth, Donald (Summer 1977). "The Complexity of Songs". SIGACT News. 27 (4): 17–24. doi:10.1145/358027.358042. S2CID 207711569.

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Rimbault, Edward F. (n.d.). Nursery Rhymes, with the Tunes to Which They Are Still Sung in the Nurseries of England. London: Cramer, Beale & Co. pp. 52–53. hdl:2027/wu.89101217990.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link) Undated; date of 1846 confirmed by this catalogue from the Bodleian Library (p. 112), and an advertisement in the Morning Herald ("Christmas Carols". Morning Herald: 8. 25 December 1846.).
Halliwell, James Orchard (1853). The Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England (Fifth ed.). London: Frederick Warne and Co. pp. 73–74. hdl:2027/uc1.31175013944015.
Salmon, Robert S. (29 December 1855). "Christmas Jingle". Notes and Queries. xii. London: George Bell: 506–507. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081666293.
Bruce, J. Collingwood; Stokoe, John (1882). Northumbrian Ministrelsy. Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. pp. 129–131. hdl:2027/uc1.c034406758.. Reprinted at Stokoe, John (January 1888). "The North-Country Garland of Song". The Monthly Chronicle of North-country Lore and Legend. Newcastle upon Tyne: Walter Scott: 41–42.
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In a manuscript by Cecily Baring-Gould, dated "about 1840", transcribed in Baring-Gould, Sabine (1974). Hitchcock, Gordon (ed.). Folk Songs of the West Country. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charales. pp. 102–103. ISBN 0715364197.; note that the linked webpage misidentifies the book in which this melody was published.

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Austin (1909). Austin, Frederic, (arr.) (1909). The Twelve Days of Christmas (Traditional Song). London: Novello. OCLC 1254007259. Novello 13056.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Baring-Gould, William S.; Baring-Gould, Ceil (1962). The Annotated Mother Goose. New York: Bramhall House. pp. 196–197. OCLC 466911815.
Routley, Erik (1961). University Carol Book. Brighton: H. Freeman & Co. pp. 268–269. OCLC 867932371. Though Erik Routley was the overall editor of this volume, its arrangement of "Twelve Days of Christmas" was made by Gordon Hitchcock, who is thus the likely source of this statement.
Richard Austin, the son of Frederic Austin, had published an arrangement the previous year: Austin, Frederic; Austin, Richard (1960). The Twelve Days of Christmas: a traditional song arranged for unison voices & piano by Frederic Austin, accompaniment simplified by Richard Austin. London: Novello. OCLC 497413045. Novello School Songs 2039..
Rutter, John (1967). Eight Christmas Carols: Set 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 15. OCLC 810573578. Melody for "Five gold rings" added by Frederic Austin, and reproduced by permission of Novello & Co. Ltd.

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